FITS Headers
dmr_53b_imap_4yr.fits
Primary Header
SIMPLE = T /
BITPIX = 16 / Number of bits per data pixel
NAXIS = 0 / Number of data axes
EXTEND = T / FITS data may contain extensions
DATE = '2005-01-10' / Creation date (CCYY-MM-DD) of FITS header
COMMENT FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format is defined in 'Astronomy
COMMENT and Astrophysics', volume 376, page 359; bibcode 2001A&A...376..359H
TELESCOP= 'COBE ' /
INSTRUME= 'DMR ' /
OBJECT = 'ALL-SKY ' /
COMMENT
COMMENT This file contains the COBE-DMR 4-year sky map for the 53 GHz
COMMENT channel B data. This map was produced by Tony Banday and Gary
COMMENT Hinshaw in 1998 as follows. The final 4-year time-ordered
COMMENT differential data archive was converted to a calibrated archive
COMMENT in FITS format (the DMR 'CIO' data). The WMAP prototype map-making
COMMENT software was adapted to the DMR experiment and used to generate
COMMENT these maps using the HEALPix tessellation of the sky. As a check,
COMMENT the same archive and code were used to generate maps in the
COMMENT original COBE quad-cube pixelization. These latter maps agreed with
COMMENT the officially released COBE-DMR maps to numerical precision.
COMMENT
CHAN_ID = '53B ' /
FREQ = '53 GHz ' /
REFERENC= 'C.L.Bennett, et.al., ApJL, 1996, 464, L1' /
REFERENC= 'A. Kogut, et al., ApJ, 1996, 470, 653' /
REFERENC= 'E.L. Wright, et al., ApJL, 1996, 458, L53' /
REFERENC= 'K.M. Gorski, et al., astro-ph/0409513' /
STOKES = 'INTENSITY' /
EQUINOX = 2000.00 /
SKYCOORD= 'GALACTIC' /
PIXTYPE = 'HEALPIX ' /
ORDERING= 'NESTED ' /
RESOLUTN= 5 /
NSIDE = 32 /
NPIX = 12288 /
FIRSTPIX= 0 /
LASTPIX = 12287 /
DATE-BEG= '22/12/1989' /Data set start date
JSTART = '1989356000000000' /Start time YYYYDDDHHMMSSHHH
DATE-END= '21/12/1993' /Data set start date
JSTOP = '1993355235959000' /Stop time YYYYDDDHHMMSSHHH
COMMENT DATE-BEG and DATE-END give the date during which
COMMENT the earliest and the latest data used in this product
COMMENT were obtained.
END
Extension Header 2
XTENSION= 'BINTABLE' /binary table extension
BITPIX = 8 /8-bit bytes
NAXIS = 2 /2-dimensional binary table
NAXIS1 = 8 /width of table in bytes
NAXIS2 = 12288 /number of rows in table
PCOUNT = 0 /size of special data area
GCOUNT = 1 /one data group (required keyword)
TFIELDS = 2 /number of fields in each row
TTYPE1 = 'TEMPERATURE ' /
TFORM1 = 'E ' /Real*4 (floating point)
TUNIT1 = 'mK,thermodynamic' /physical unit of field
TTYPE2 = 'N_OBS ' /
TFORM2 = 'E ' /Real*4 (floating point)
TUNIT2 = 'counts ' /physical unit of field
PIXTYPE = 'HEALPIX ' /HEALPIX pixelisation
ORDERING= 'NESTED ' /Pixel ordering scheme, either RING or NESTED
OBJECT = 'FULLSKY ' /
COORDSYS= 'G ' /Pixelization coordinate system
NSIDE = 32 /Healpix resolution parameter
NPIX = 12288 /Total number of pixels
FIRSTPIX= 0 /First pixel # (0 based)
LASTPIX = 12287 /Last pixel # (zero based)
INDXSCHM= 'IMPLICIT' /indexing : IMPLICIT or EXPLICIT
GRAIN = 0 /GRAIN = 0: No index,
COMMENT G = Galactic, E = ecliptic, C = celestial = equatorial
COMMENT GRAIN =1: 1 pixel index for each pixel,
COMMENT GRAIN >1: 1 pixel index for Grain consecutive pixels
END